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CONTENTS. 
The Nebulous Theory of Creation, (Note., the figures refer to the 

verses,) verses 5, 6, 43, 44, 46, 63, 64, 115. 
Evolution, theory &c., 4, 7, 14, 20, 23, 45, 46, 81, 88, 116, 117, 118 to 125. 

" its origin 16 to 19. 
Progression, 102, 111, 112, 139 to 145. 
Influence of fashion 51 to 56. . 

Man, origin of 79. 
*' " Knowledge of 79, 84. 

" " A triune 80, 105, 130 to 138, 145. 171, 172, 185. 
" '• As old as any of the animal tribes, 121 to 124. 
No condemnation till salvation has been rejected, 183 to 185. 
No universal salvation, 162 to 171 to 182, 192. 
No eternal torture, 175 to 183, 186 to 188 to 190. 

APPENDIX. 

Musings on the banks of the Mississippi, the Old World, Ancient 

Rome and America 1 to 26. 
Indians, 26 to 40. Where they came from, 40 to 45, their mission in 

the Old World and the new, 45, 46. 
Machine poetry. 
A last adieu after a short visit to the home of my boyhood. 



TO THE PUBLIC: 

These thoughts were written in the winter of 1873 and 1874, and 
would not now be offered to the public if the theories whicii gave rise 
to them had not lately acquired such prominence and support from 
men in influential positions From many years of careful investiga. 
tion and observation, the author is fully convinced that the theories 
under consideration have no foundation in fact, and that a universal 
belief in those theories would be destructive of the best interests 
of men. Poetry is not adapted to close and logical discussions, but to 
the dissemination of seed thoughts that germinate and bring convic- 
tion to the mind. If this receives sufficient encouragement to war- 
rant the publication of part the second in prose, the work will be 
much enlarged and defects remedied to a great extent. This poem 
treats on theories, the truth or falsehood of which are of momentious 
consequence to all mankind, and should engage your earnest consider- 
ation. 

The scientific theorists have not solved the mysteries of the dim 
distant past, and never can as long as they continue to reason from a 
defective or false statement Theologins are responsible to a great 
extent for the errors into which the scientists have fallen; for it was 
they who invented the false statement, that man's true holiness 
was the image and likeness of God. Where was it when the tempter 
came? Was it true? No; and it did not bear the slightest resemblance 
to God Holiness is an attribute, and not an image and likeness The 
inspired statement is that man was made in the image and likeness of 
God. That God is a Truine; therefore, if man was made in His image 
and likeness, man is a Triune. The lower animals are Duals, com- 
posed of matter and mind, and could not have been the progenitors of 
Triunes composed of matter, mind and soul or spirit; for they could 
not transmit what they did not possess. These incontrovertable facts 
prove that progression, evolution and Darwinism have no foundation 
in fact. Those myths should be expelled; man should know and feel 
that he is the connecting link between the spiritual and temporal cre- 
ation or worlds and live in harmony with both. The mysteries in- 
volved in creation we do not pretend to solve, for 



1. There is a boundry over which 
"No finite mind ran soar, 
Stupendious heights it carnot scale 
And depths it can't explore. 

2. A mystery in many things 
That mortals cannot solve, 
And every effort that we make 
In deeper will involve 

3. Some preachers and philosphers, 
In fancies' w^onderous flight. 

Have soared beyond the realm of facts 
And left truth out of sight. 

4. I do>ot think they did intend 
To lead mankind astray. 

But their strange theories, it is plain, 
Bears evil fruit to-day. 

5. I offer you a few crude thoughts, 
Intended for your good, 

Some scattered crumbs, that you may find 
Nutritious mental food. 

6. They were composed long years ago 
When I was in my prime. 

If I had|time to write them o'er 
' They would not be in rhyme. 

7. They treat of subjects where we need 
Close reasoning, single thought, 

To state, combat and overthrow 
The theories some have taught. 

8. And he, who writes his thoughts in prose. 
Has nothing on his brain. 

To keep him from selecting words 
To make his meaning plain, 

9. Blank verse allows some latitude, 
The proper w^ords to find. 

For to express the thoughts we wish 
In measure of some kind. 

to. But when the mind is glowing, with 
Three thoughts at the same time, 
We must be satisfied with words 
Adapted to our rhyme. 



11. True poetry is triime thought, 
With soul and feeling fraught, 

A living power, a gift from God, 
That never can be bought. 

12. A tower of strength, a citadel, 
Invincible and grand, 

With batteries of celestial fire 
That falsehood cannot stand. 

13. 'Tis on the lofty mount of song. 
Where Angels hover round, 

The echo of their harps we hear. 
For this is holy ground, 

14. Come with me to the mountain's side, 
I'll not attempt to climb, 

There's inspiration at the foot 
Enough for my poor rhyme 

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Thoughts on the Nebulous Theory of 
Creation, Darwinism, &c, 

1. The winds of December are sighing and wailing 
A mournful dirge as the old year departs 

To eternity, past that mystical ocean 

Of which science gives us so many strange charts. 

2. The new fledged philosophers, skeptics and sages, 
This dark misty ocean have claimed to explore, 
They coasted a little, got wrecked on the headlands, 
And of this vast ocean tliey know nothing more. 

3. They wickedly wasted their God given powers. 
To prove that the God given truth was untrue, 
They delved in the mountains, they dove in the ocean, 
And proved what an unguided reason will do. 

4. They found an old monkey and called him their Father, 
(You laugh at such fancies and think them insane,) 
False science, too long and too ardently studied. 
Invariably ends in a mystified brain. 

5. They fanc}' they know all about vast creation. 
Can tell you the age of this world to a day ; 
That all things were made by a nebulous nothing; 
And God never moulded a man out of clay. 



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6. That nebulous nothing created this world, 
And nebulous nothing made mountains and seas, 

And when it was wrath it made thunder and lightning, 
In happier mood it made birds, beasts and trees. 

7. This wonderful nothing produced a shrewd monkey. 
And then out of nothing procured it a wife. 

For nebulous nothing went in to progression, 
Progression evolved mind, matter and life. 

8. And thus without God. They invent a creation, 
Where Infinite power had nothing to do, 

Not even the job to provide a hereafter, 
Of joy or of sorrow for me or for you. 

9. Thus science gone wild contradicts revelation. 
And naturally drifts to the infidel's goal, 

That beyond this one life, there is nothing to live for, 
There is no hereafter, and man has no soul. 

10 And then poor lost wretch, you have nothing to hope for 

No fond expectations when this life is o'er, 

That you ever will join the bright angels in glory, 

Or meet with your loved ones that have gone you before. 

11. Only darkness and clouds to surround your poor soul, 
As onward you drift to the cold silent tomb, 

The horrors of death with no hope of a Heaven, 
No light of Gods lamp through the terrible gloom. 

12. But a future before you, you cannot escape, 
All hope of Salvation eternally fled, 

For if you believe not the prophets and Moses, 

You would not believe though one rose from the dead. 

13. An honest belief in the wild speculations 
Of Darwin and others, there's none can dispute, 
"Would banish from man every holy emotion, 
And make him no more than a rational brute. 

14. They say they discovered, far back in lost ages, 
That Man was a Molusk, then Monkey or Ape; 

The offspring of shell fish could hveak no commandment^ 
And thus from all penalty they do escape. 

15. They laugh at religion, they need no redeemer; 
Irresponsible offspring of matter alone. 

No odds what they do in this state of existence. 
They sin not, and therefore no Christ can atone. 



16. It was Darwin's father who fancied a mussel 
Had crawled from the ocean and dwelt upon land, 
Got rid of its shell, and progressing for ages, 
Evolved the branches whereon for to stand. 

17. The father transmitted this silly delusion 

To a son who was blessed with a wonderful brain, 
He grasped everything on the face of creation, 
To build up a theory the myth to maintain. 

18. The mussel he changed to a monkey so frisky. 
And started it off to select a nice wife; 

One fatal omission upsets the whole theory. 
The poor brute was doomed to a sad single life. 

19. He has filled a nice volume with sophistry full, 
So ably handled that many believe 

That we owe our existence to monkeys alone. 
And have not decended from Adam and Eve. 

20. Man never decended from any such monkey, 
For they were the product of certain fixed laws, 
Produced in that way they could have no decendants; 
And in a few words I will tell you the cause. 

21. It is a grand truth, that cannot be refuted, 
Like causes can only produce like effects, 

So after progressing for millions of ages. 
Those mythical monkeys were all of one sex. 

22. They could not have differed in size, sex or form, 
Like causes produced them alike it is plain, 

So monkey, selection, progression and all that 
"Was but the wild dream of a mystified brain. 

23. Every one of their theories are baseless as this. 
From their nebulous world to their ape produced men, 
When tested with truth they will tumble to dust. 

But like phantoms they raise them again and ag^im. 

24. They throw no true light on eternity past. 
They catch not a glimpse of the far distant shore. 
The phosphoric light from old fossels and bones 
But make the dim distant more dark than before. 

25. But historj^ is ever repeating itself in 
The proneness of man to seek refuge in lies; 
From the Antedeluvians down to our day. 
What God has asserted will never suffice. 



36. They will doubt and attempt for to prove it untrue, 
Interpret, pervert and expound In a way 
To prove it in conflict with nature's great laws, 
Which they claim the Almighty is bound to obey. 

27. 'Twas such learned fools in the days of old Noah, 
Made people believe they would not be drowned, 
They could not be frightened by any such nonsense, 
The reasoned from cause to effect so profound. 

28. It never had rained and where was the water, 
Old Noah could palm upon them no such fraud; 
Perhaps they believed him a raving. fanatic. 

And laughed at the man with a message from God. 

29. They argued no doubt there was not enough water 
In all vast creation a deluge to cause ; 

And that as earth had, she must ever continue 
By fixed eternal, unchangeable laws. 

30. Convinced of the truth of those learned deductions, 
To warnings and threatenings they turned a deaf ear; 
They had science enough to prove themselves fools, 
Without sense enough, God's displeasure to fear. 

31. So the ark was full freighted, the entrance closed 
Ere one of those wise fools got ready to sail ; 

But they lived long enough this great truth for to learn, 
God's will is the law and they died with a wail. 

32. Or rather I should say they were soon convinced. 
There was no such thing as unchangeable laws. 
And that nature must ever be subject to God, 

Who through vast creation is motor and cause. 

33 They soon found to their grief there was enough water, 
Rushing up from the earth, pouring down from the skies 
To perform exactly what Noah foretold 

And prove all their science a terrible lie. 

34 Astonished they saw the first storm cloud ascending, 
That ever obscured the bright rays of the sun. 

From out the dark mass saw the red lightning flashing, 
While loud thunder pealed, their destruction began. 

35. False hope took its flight and the Infidels shuddered. 
No caviling now while the elements roar, 
For those terrible agents obeying God's will, 
They had not discovered or dreamed of before. 



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36. The trembling earth coUapscd on its center, 
The rock ribs protrude from the wreck of the world, 
The torrents rush up from the fathomless deep. 
Proud man and his works to destruction are hurled. 

37. One family alone from a populous earth, 
Triumphantly float o'er the desolat<e waste, 
They were simple believers, took God at his word 
And in what he revealed full confidence placed. 

38. The scoff and the sneer of the skeptic is o'er, 
They lie buried deep in the ooze and the slime, 
In a putrid mass with the beasts of the field, 

Or swept by the torrents to every clime. 

39. Let their fate be a warning to men of our day. 
Who would exalt reason above revelation, 

And claim their researches have given the lie 
To what God revealed of this world's creation. 

40. We know the old story related by Moses 
Contains simple truth, nothing more, nothing less, 
He wrote it no doubt as the Spirit dictated, 

And therefore we know it w^as no random guess. 

41. To the truth of the Prophets I need not refer. 
Ten thousand fulfillments is their vindication. 
So minute in detail, so exact in result, 

That reason exclaims, it was God's revelation. 

42. But the leaders of science in every age, 
Conclusively prove all past theories untrue, 

They tear down the fabrics that others have raised. 
And take the old ruins to build something new\ 

43. Now test their new theories with positive facte. 
Those facts kill the theories as dead as a smelt, 

If the cause must be adequate to the effect; 
The new fangled notions to nothing niu.st melt. 

44. For nebulous clouds o'er oceans of vapor, 
Had neither the power or skill to design. 
An eye, or an ear, a mouse or a deer. 

Much less, the whole universe grand and sublime. 

45. The next is as fatal to Darwin's wild dreams, 
Like causes must ever produce like effects; 

If like causes must always result just the same. 
All animate life must have been of one sex. 



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46. So the problem worked out, from Darwin's own statement^ 
Conclusively proves the whole theory untrue, 

And any who strive to prove kin to such monkeys, 
Will find it is more than their able to do. 

47. The horse is the next, let us see how they manage 
With their special pleadings to put in the claim, 

That they have descended from that noble quadruped,. 
And have no more sense is a pity and shame. 

48. They claim in dissecting the foot of a horse. 
They found fingers, or toes encased in his hoof, 
"Eureka," they cried, we have sprung from this brute,. 
See here in these bones irrefutable proof. 

49. The foot of a horse may contain the same number 
Of bones that are found in the hand of a man; 

But that does not prove that one sprung from the other,. 
And would not though both were alike in their plan. 

50. It is a strong proof if any were needed, 
That one great designer was maker of all; 

Though through sin man may be a disgrace to the brutes^ 
We are not their descendants, though low we may fall. 

51. Believe God made man, as we read in the Bible, 
And leave the denial to college bred fools: 

If Darwin and Huxley keep riding their hobbies, 
Our colleges soon will be infidel schools. 

52. If Victoria carried a toad in her glove. 
And Eugenie a rattlesnake, coiled on her breast, 

It would soon be the fashion, ihose reptiles to love. 
Though repulsive and vile, they would be caressed; 

53. You would naturally th'nk men would turn in disgust^ 
From theories debasing to all of our race; 

But eloquent preachers now pandering to fahsion^ 
With Darwin and Huxley, the Bible displace. 

54. If those preachers believe that man was envolved. 
From things without souls, 'tis logical teaching. 

That they could not transmit what they did not possess; 
To men without souls, then why are they preaching? 

55. Such traitors to truth are a curse to the nation, 
God pity the people, by them led astray; 

Those preachers, like Judas, would sell the redeemer,. 
To be in the fashion and get large pay. 



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56. Like him it is true, they have not been converted, 
Are strangers to God, and the joys of salvation; 

But reason should teach them that man has a soul, 
And that without God, there could be no creation. 

57. The worlds were made by the word of His power, 
And each of His wisdom, assigned to its place. 

All w^as motionless, silent, and darkness profound : 
Great globes of dead matter in infinite space. 

58. There was silence in Heaven, and silence below, 
The wandering Angels, all paused in their flight, 
For the spirit of God, brooded over the deep, 

He spake! all creation was glowing with light. 

59. The Sun is God's engine, the great motive power. 
Through which He gives motion to planet and sphere; 
Revolving and swinging the globes round their orbits, 
By which they work out their days, seasons and years, 

60. In the sun's fond embrace this globe is revolving. 
If it w^as a flat earth, it would soon leave its place; 
Attraction so strong of its surface. 

Would carry it swiftly into the sun's face. 

61. If you say this is new, it is not a theory. 
We may yet find time to say more of the sun ; 
'Tisa positive fact that cannot be denied, 
When time will permit to explain how it's done. 

62. Vast oceans of vapor were not in existence, 

And could not before some great globes were complete 
Some ponderous bodies of matter with moisture. 
And then have no vapor without solar heat. 

63. We will not take time to discuss gravitation, 
Tho' wonderful things some believe it has done ; 
I'm fully convinced it never was needed. 

That all of that work is performed by the sun. 

64. The scientists say that vast oceans of vapor. 
Lay floating around in immensity's space ; 
That old gravitation made worlds of that vapor, 
'Tis strange that it was not condensed in one place. 

65. We do not believe there was ever such worlds, 
Or gravity guided them round the bright sun ; 
We discover in God the one adequate cause, 

He willed and the wonderful waltz was begun. 



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66. Ten thousand great globes set revolving and circling, 
As onw^ard they glide through eternity's. dome; 
Where comets are rushing with bright torches flaming, 
And planets are swinging their partners home. 

67. Stupendious work of omnipotent power, 

Oreat author of all things, how wouderous thy ways, 
Let the glad sons of God shout together for joy, 
And angelic harps, peal loud anthems of praise, 

68. Let the winds raise their voice and the waves of the sea. 
Roll out their deep bass, round the rock river shore ; 

Let the forests clap hands and the rivers rejoice. 
And mountains re-echo the loud thunder's roar, 

69. While the planets roll on through immensity's space, 
Afloat on eternity's ocean so far ; 

That a world, a hundred times greater than this. 
So distant appears but a twinkling star. 

70. Like the psalmest of old, astronomers now see 
The glory of God in the star spangled sky; 
With what rapture they watch the celestial waltz. 
And trace the bright comets as onward they fly. 

71. With them God is not nature, and nature is not God, 
But God is the author of all they behold ; 

In His infinite hands, countless worlds revolve, 
The whole realm of nature by Him is controlled. 

72. Like mist on the mountains, man's fancy goes roaming, 
Untrammeled, unguided, it drifts far away ; 

It never returns to rest on the mountains, 
And such is the fate of proud science lo day. 

73. For without any pilot, a compass, or chart, 
In bold self reliance, it pu.shed from tlie strand; 
Drifted out on an ocean no mortal explored, 
And never again will return to land. 

74. With a mutinous crew adrift from religion. 
Of diversified notions, discipline they hate, 

They boast of their learning, and new fangled notions. 
Jack Theory is Captain, Jim Sophistry mate. 

75. They are sure to get wrecked on the voyage of life, 
Who first threw the quadrant and compass away. 
And sail with a chart all made up of conjectures, 

As science is sailing her frail bark to da v. 



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76. The Bible's a chart we can safely rely on, 
If all is not there we would like for to know ; 
It gives the grand outlines of primative ages, 
And marks further on than proud science can go. 

77. Let this book be your guide on the voyage of life, 
Its pages tor ever, new beauties unfold ; 

'Tis a quadrant, and compass that millions have proved, 
And found it more precious than silver or gold. 

78. Now read the old story related by Moses, 
When light from the spirit illumined the past; 
Disclosing an Eden far back in the ages. 
Where man b}^ the soverign of nature was cast. 

79. God made him at first, but one step below angels, 
A noble, responsible, rational soul ; 

With wisdom surpassing our modei'n sages. 

The birds, i'ish and beasts He could name and control ; 

80. A triune, composed of mind, matter and spirit, 
To bless him with wisdom, devotion and love ; 
The central link, through which God has united 
His creatures on earth to the angels above. 

81. There is not a break in the chain of creation. 
From angels to insects that crawl at our feet, 
Not one link in that chain can envolve any other, 
God made each unchangeable, fixed and complete. 

82. Man slept, and God pitied his lonely condition, 
And made him a bride for to people the globe ; 
Devoid of all humbug and new tangled fashions. 
For beauty alone is the best bridal robe. 

83. Let science no longer talk of a progression. 
Which has envolved nothing in six thousand years ; 
But leaves us forever and ever repeating. 

Our Adam and Eve, in our loves joys, and tears. 

84. This first happy pair were the gems of perfection. 
In mental and physical beauty complete. 

The poets, enraptured have sang of their daughters. 
But none to compare with the mother they meet. 

85. God blessed them and gave them the first great commandment, 
Be fruitful to people and govern the earth ; 

Some say that God cursed them and drove them from Eden, 
Because they obeyed, and Cain had his birth. 



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86. 'Tis a monstrous falsehood, believed by a few, 

Who after perverting the plain simple truth, 

Will tell you the Bible is very immodest, 

A book quite unfit for our innocent youth. 

SI. What the spirit in wisdom saw fit to relate, 

Of the vileness of man, his proneness to sin ; 

I am more than convinced it will cause no one to err, 

And I dare not say that it should not be in. 

SS. The trouble with them is they have not yet learned 

The beautiful lessons the Bible contains, 

With silly romances and vile trashy novels. 

Those mock, modest creatures are stuffing their brains. 

89. They, falsely assert, but they never can prove that 
The Bible has ever corrupted mankind, 

If they vi?iit the nations that read not the book, 
What kind of morality there do they find ? 

90. Brute force dominates over justice and mercy. 
The animal man has it all its own w^ay ; 

Their spirits and intellects are but the slaves of 

The animal passions, they yield to obey. 

^1. If in total depravity, we don't believe, 

Few traits in those men can we find to admire 

Though they live in the loveliest parts of this earth, 

A home with those people we do not desire. 

92. In vain we are looking for prudent selection, 

It never was practiced by monkeys or men ; 

The lustful by nature select the most lustful, 

The sordid will marry for wealth who they can. 

■93. If any would strive to improve by selection. 
Since dressmakers practice such horrible fraud. 
They can't choose a wife till they see her as Adam 
Heceived mother Eve, from the hands of his God. 

94. Selection (in deed), with false breasts and great bustles. 
And other inventions got up to deceive; 
There never was yet^ such a wise son of Adam 
That could not be fooled by a daughter of Eve. 

'95. The pure and the good, never think of selection 

]S"o animal passion is urging them on. 

An invisable, incomprehensible powder, 

Takes two hearts, and out of them only makes one. 



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^6. 'Tis love, that mysterious, undeflned spirit, 

Uniting more hearts than lust, reason or gol.i ; 

Inspiring the orator, poet and painter, 

And working more wonders than ever was told. 

D7. We'll not disagree, if you call this selection, 

Except you insist 'tis selection by man. 

For here I affirm it is God's selection. 

His carrying out of a beautiful plan. 

S8. If all would accept of this holy selection, 

JEve's daughters would know less of anguish and tears, 

Por love, joy and peace would change earth to an Eden, 

Where man would be happy through all coming years. 

^9. That many have done so in this favored nation. 

Is all that has kept us to day on a par 

With Spartins, the Romans, the Persians and Greeks, 

And others, who lived in past ages afar. 

100. The rivers that flowed through those ancient dominions, 
If they told the story of man to the sea. 

Related, exactly, what now is transpiring 

On the banks of the Sein, Thames, Shanon and Dee. 

101. It is the old story, true lovers will wander 
Away to the wildwood, the mountain or stream. 
Away with the loved one, by moonlight or sunshine, 
With them to live on in a pure holy dream. 

102. We have not a passion, a thought, word or action 
"That others have not had, long ages ago ; 

Away w^ith your pride, don't take it for granted. 
That we are so Smart, and all others were Slow. 

103. Dear reader, excuse the apparent digression, 
I started to prove that the Bible was true ; 

If I prove the conclusions of science are false, 
I think that is all it is needful to do. 

104. I'll grant '^ne position that science has taken, 
An unbroken chain through creation extends. 
But scientists have utterly failed to discover, 
■Omnipotent power at work at both ends. 

105. They have found neither end of this wonderful chain. 
The grand triple link, they have moved from its place ; 
Between spirits and men they see no connection. 

From God and the Angels they sever our race. 



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106. Imagine a man standing by a steam engine, 
Who has not the slightest conception of steam. 
Like a giant it turns the pondrous crank, 
While he is cognating the curious scheme. 

107. He knows at a glance, something set it in motion. 
This something is wliat he determines to find. 

He sees a succession of wheels, belts and pullej's, 
And thinks this will make it all clear to his mind. 

108. He perceives that each belt is a link in the chain, 
And carefully tracing them down to the end, 

He returns, step by step, to the engine again, 
He knows all about it, you now may depend. 

109. He discovered a place, full of nebulous cotton. 
That started a shuttle, that started a loom ; 

The loom set in motion, the w^heeJs, belts and engine, 
To doubt his conclusions, where have you the room ? 

110. For you must admit that he had as good reason 
To claim that the cotton he found in the mill, 
Transmitted a power from shuttle to engine, 

And each of the belts were augmenting it still. 

111. As science has got, for her nebulous nothing, 
Progressing, evolving, both matter and mind, 
Increasing their forces at each evolution. 
Producing the wonderful powers we find. 

112. He reasoned exactly as Darwin had reasoned, 
One starts from the engine, the other from man ; 
Both trace down the chain to discover the power. 
And both the same race of absurdity ran. 

113. One failed to discover the wonderul power, 
That rushed from amiotionless boiler of steam;- 
The other was blind to omnipotent power, 

That poured through creation the life giving stream. 

114. It is an old axiam with all men of science, 
There must be for all things an adequate cause; 
Their latest deductions set this at defiance. 

In fact they have broken all rational laws. 

115. In the first place, they say there were oceans of mist, 
What caused all this vapor they do not explain. 

There could|have been none before worlds were created, 
in verse 62 you will find this made plain. 



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116. In the next place they say there were animal germi, 
Anamacula, spores, or some vital things; 

They don't tell us how they came into existance, 
Or if they had either heads, tails, feet or wings. 

117. But they do say, that out of those germs were evolved, 
All things that have life upon this rolling ball; 

All the insects and reptiles, the birds, beasts and fish, 
And Man was evolved last, and noblest of all. 

118 That those animal germs were all just alike, 
Is somothing no theorist attempts to dispute, 
And since this is so, it is easy to prove that 
They never evolved a bird, fish or brute. 

119. For if under fixed laws, they progressed and evolved, 
They progressed and evolved exactly the same. 

In size, sex and form, exactly alike^ so 

No product of theirs to this earth ever came. 

120. They do not, and cannot, aduce the least proof of, 
An adequate cause, to produce the effect; 

If the people will give them one serious thought, 
They soon will discover this fatal defect. 

121. We have positive proof that man was not evolved, 
From anything of a prior creation; 

For none of the animal tribes now extant, 
Existed before the last tertary formation. 

122. Geologists know in the tertary period 
That all vegitation and life were destroyed. 

That the vast ocean torrents swept over the earth, 
And left all behind them a desolute void, 

123. We should hear no more of progression evolving 
When nothing was left for progression to do. 

Not an atom with life survived the old world, 
And all upon this were created anew. 

124. Those acts of creation in rapid succession, 
Soon filled the new world with verdure and life; 

They were brought to a close with the brightest and best. 
The gift made to Adam a beautiful wife. 

125. 'Tis of this creation the Bible informs us. 
With old buried world's man had nothing to do; 
In six days this world out of chaos was formed, 
And^verything on it created anew. 



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126. I hope the next time theorists go on a rampage, 
To turn creation the other end to, 
They'll have better sense than go hunting for vapor, 
Or give it the work of Almighty to do 

137. They talk very learned of the great laws of Nature, 
But don't seem to know anything of their source; 
Or, that they could have no effect upon Nature, 
Without Supreme Power, those laws to enforce. 

128. True science unlocks the great storehouse of Nature^ 
Disclosing the works of omnipotence there: 

The most iusignificant speck of creation, 
God's Wisdom and Power, and Glory declare. 

129. Evolution's a myth, and progression is slow, 
Man must struggle hard to regaia his lost place. 
From Adam on down, he sunk lower and lower, 
Till God swept from the earth nearly all of the race. 

130. First made in the image of God, his creator, 
A triune, three persons united in one; 

They soon disagreed, and tbe animal person 
Grew strongest in time, and the victory won. 

131. He raised three giant sons to war with the spirit, 
Then intellect thought to befriend them it must. 

So the spiritual man has a terrible conflict 
With intellect, appetite, averis and lust. 

132. The battle still rages, the spirit grows stronger, 
The time is at hand when the conflict will end; 
For intellect soon will acknowledge the spirit. 

The noblest of all and its truest best friend. 

133 'Tis true that the spirit need never be vanquished, 

It can in an instant have aid from above; 

It slept at its post, and its duty neglected. 

And seldom applied for God's aid or his love. 

134, The mind has been troubled, the body has trembled, 
When the spirit of man arose in its might, 

To urge or compel the mind and tbe body. 
To abstain from all evil, and do what is right. 

135. The remorse and the terror, the Wicked have felt 
When both mind and body agreed to do wrong. 
Should convince the most skeptic, that man has a soul, 
That soul a reality, living and strong. 



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136. The soul is a person, as real as the body, 
And far more substantial, enduring and grand; 
The intellect soars to bright realms of glory, 
When with a pure spirit it joins hand in hand. 

137. Man's intellect surely is substance and'power, 
Its mighty achievements the work it has done, 

Is proof beyond doubt of ils vital existence, 
And thus we prove man is three persons m one. 

138. I defy you to prove that he ever was less, 
Or lower or viler than some are to day, 

"With so many vile creatures in this Christian land, 
I thmk of progression there's little to say. 

139. And I know you'd say less if better informed 
Of what mankind were in the ages gone by. 

If you viewed the vast ruins of Egypt and Greece. 
You'd look at their poor abject, sons with a sigh. 

140. Europe has about reached her zenith of glory, 
And may be soon numbered with nations long dead, 
With Great Babylon, Nineveh, Egypt and Rome. 
Whose grandure and glory for ever have fled. 

141. Now what are the sons of those once mighty siers? 
Who built those great cities, grand temples and towers, 
You dare not assert there has been a progression, 
From their days on down through the ages to ours. 

142. The preponderance of proof is man retrogaded, 
All over the earth at a terrible pace. 

To this you can find but one noted exception; 

And that is the Anglosaxonion race. 

143: That did not result from a law of progression, 

'Twas the reformation that caused the advance, 

Christianity added the spiritual man. 

While freethought retarded advancement in France. 

144. The progressive theory must go with the others, 
All creatures of fancy, and never of fact; 

The history of man proves they never existed, 
Except as mere myths, by no evidence backed. 

145. Man spiritual must be in the ascendant 
Before we can hope to regain our lost place, 
The man intellectual must help in the battle, 
And not let man animal ruin the race. 



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146. Religion alone can restore the lost image, 
Religion! I say and not hocus pocus, 

The man must be brought by his reason and will, to 
Place himself under God's spiritual focus. 

147. I don't wish to say one harsh word of the churches, 
The doctrines or dogmas that some of them teach; 

If they do not accord with good reason and judgement, 
Don't risk your salvation with them I beseech. 

148. I know some lay claim to possessing the power. 
The sin defaced image of God to restore; 

If they practice upon you as long as you live, 
They leave you a caricature, and no more. 

149. 'Tis not rights and forms that the soul stands in need of, 
But the spirit of God to create it anew: 

Then do not depend on the priests or the churches. 
For that is a work that they never can do. 

150. If you wish to escape from the bondage of sin. 
Set free and God's image engraved on your heart. 
Do not wait till to morrow, you might be too late; 
Now! now! is the moment from sin to depart. 

151. Yes, now at this moment God waits to redeem you. 
In earnest prayer fly to the arms of his love, 

Except what He offers, believe every promise, 
Lay claim to the homestead He offers above. 

152 Don't say or believe that you are not a sinner, 
You know in your heart you sinned many a day; 
You may not have lied, stole or cheated your neighbor, 
But you owe God a debt that you cannot pay. 

153. Your spirit has sighed many times for redemption, 
Is struggling now if not totally depressed. 

Then why not resolve to be up and a doing, 
Get rid of your debt and in Jesus find rest. 

154. Oh be not deceived, you cannot enter heaven, 
Except on a passport from Jesus alone; 

If you would save your soul from a terrible fate, 
Implore the dear Saviour for you to atone. 

155. But where ami drifting? I had not intended 
To turn exhorter, or scare you with hell; 

But since I have started I hope you'l excuse me. 
If for a few lines on this subject we dwell. 



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156. I think that man's spirit can be so pointed 
From contact witli a debased body and mind, 

That it would be unfit to commune witli good Angels; 
And some other place it has got for lo find 

157. It may be the truth that tho^e poor debased spirits 
Do often commune with our spiritual friends, 

The pictures they show with the spirits of Indians, 
"Who were murderers vile to this logic tends. 

158. In old Bible times there were plenty of spirits, 
Some vile ones that used to both mutter and peep, 
About the same kind are now rapping and writing, 
I think it is best from such spirits to keep. 

159. "We need not expect that good spirits from Heaven 
Are likely to visit this sinful abode; 

And no poor lost soul that the mediums are calling. 
Will ever be able to show us the road. 

160. But what will become of those souls in the future ? 
Must they ever live on when time is no more? 

My poetical teem has run a long race. 

Let them rest while with prose, this ground we explore. 

161. Dear reader, to you and to I, an answer to the above questions may 
seem of little importance, a fiow of thought carried me to this subject. 
"Without premeditation on my part, I do not desire a controversy with 
theologins. 

162. Believing that theological disputants and Christian scientists, 
and theorists have done more evil, and made more skeptics and infi- 
dels than all the infidel writers have been able to do And on this sub- 
ject there are a class of theologins who by their speculative theories 
endeavor to prove that every soul of man will be saved, no matter 
how great their transgressions, or iiow pointed and vile their lives may 
have been. 

163. They say Christ died for all men, therefore all will be saved. 
That God breathed into Adam the breath of life, and man became a 
living soul, therefore the soul is a part of God, and remains pure 
though the man be sinful and vile. And as the sun draws or resurects 
pure glittering drops of dew from the mud and stench of a filthy 
pool, so the souls of all men will be resurrected at the last day. Pure 
164 and holy fit for heaven. Our only reliable source of information 
on the questions under consideration, are the scripturers, I believe 
them to be the inspired word of God But before quoting from the 
scriptures, a few remarks on texts relied on by the theorists of universal 
salvation may not be out of place, I grant that Christ died for all men. 



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165. that all might have a home in heaven, and that he sealed the 
homestead law of Heaven with His blood. But all men will not avail 
themselves of salvation through Him, any more than all men will avail 
themselves of 160 acres of land through the homestead law of this na- 
tion. 

166. If God breathed into Adam the breath of life, that is no proof 
that God transmitted any part of His person or substance to Adam, or 
that Adam transmitted a pure and deathless spirit to any of His de- 

167. scendants. The sun distilling the water of the filthy pool is not 
analogous to the purification of the soul from sin. The theory of un- 
iversal salvation is contrary to the whole tenor of God's word, and to 
the plain and oft repeated declarations of Jesus Christ. 

168. See Neh. 1, 3 The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, 
and will not at all acquit the wicked. Pr 11-17, When a wicked man 
dieth his expectation shall perish Luke 13-38. There shall be weep- 
ing and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and 
Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves 
thrust out. Pet., 3-7, But the Heaven's and the earth which are now 
by the same word, are kept in stord reserved unto fire, against the 
day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. Mat. 25-41, Then 
shall he say also unto them on the left hand, "depart from me ye 
cursed into everlasting fire prepared, for the devil and his angels." 
Ezk., 18-4, The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Rom , 6-23, The wages 
of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus 

169. Christ our Lord. Jesus said ttiat whosoever believed in Him 
should never die In the scriptures you can find hundreds of texts 
that prove that, only those who have received the gift of eternal life 
through Christ will be saved, and that all others will be cast into the 
lake of fire, and there die the second death. Against this whole array 

170. of proofs that the wicked shall be utterly destroyed. There is but 
one text that accords with the theory of universal salvation, namely: 
Gen . 3.4, The serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die. 

171. Man know thy self. I read in the Bible that man was made in 
the image and likeness of God. Theologins say that the likeness con- 
sisted in man's true holiness. Holiness is not a likeness, but an attrib- 
ute of God. The scriptures teach that God is a triune, or three persons 
in one, therefore if man was made in the image and likeness of God 

172. he must be a triune, and independent of the bible. We can 
prove by man's experience that he is a three-fold being, composed of 
animal, intellectual and spiritual persons. I believe that the soul or 
spiritual person will live as long as time endures. But that does not 

173. include eternity. Adam forfeited eternal life by his transgres- 
sion and did not and could not transmit it to any of his descendants, 



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and if any of 'his descendants do possess eternal life it is tlie gift of 
Ood to tliem, and{ not an inlieritance. Jesus says that He givetli 

174. eternal life to as many as believeth on or in Him. Throughout 
the whole of the new testiment you will find it positively asserted 
that eternal life is the gift of God through Christ. The scriptures do 

175. say that the punishment of the wicked is to endure forever. It 
no where say.s that the the punishment is to be eternal, and is it not 

176. rational to believe that forever ends just where eternity begins? 
Forever means no longer than time endures, and when the angel with 
uplifted hand shall swear 'by him that liveth and reigneth that time 
shall be no more. This terrible forever and forever will soon be 

177. ended. Some say^that the souls of men must live through all 
eternity, that God can neither kill nor destroy them. But not one text 
of scripture warrants anj^such opinion, while scores of texts expressly 
declare that God will utterly destroy them, and in at least one place, 
that they shall be as though they had never been. 

178. Man is able to destroy the work of his hands. Is it possible that 
God has made what He cannot destroy? Must He through all eternity 
endure the presence or existene of millions of souls in His dominion 
who have set His laws at defiance and done despite to his love? 

179. I think I have the warrant of God's word to believe that satan and 
his angels and every soul of man unsaved through Christ will be utterly 
•destroyed. That in eternityj}there'will be but one kingdom. And 

180. before any venture to say that God cannot destroy or kill a soul 
they should positively know what souls were made of, and from that 
knowledge prove their indestructability. If God 'created or 
made soals He can destroy them. The Apostle Peter says that this 
•earth will be destroyed by fire at the last day and I believe that all its 
creatures not gifted with eternal life will be destroyed with it. Pet. 
3-7 plainly teaches that this earth is reserved unto tire against the day 
of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 

181. And from careful investigation of the scriptures I am inclined to 
believe that no soul can leave this planet. If not gifted ^vith eter- 
nal life and carried over the otherwise impassable gulf by angels to 
paradise. Or, if permitted to range the solar system o'er they would 
still be in a prison from which they could not escape unto the day of 
judgment. 

182. When every soul of man and satan and his angels will be brought 
to trial on the boundary between time and eternity, and there be eith- 
er acquited or condemned to destruction from which they never will 
recover. That all the assembled millions will approve the judgement 
j>assed on each. 



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183. That none will be condemned who had not ample opportunity to- 
either accept or reject the offers of pardon and solvation through Christ. 

184. And as Christ was preached to the spirits who were a foretime in 
prison who were disobedient in the days of Noah. So will he be- 
preached to the end of time to all those who in this life had not the? 
opportunity to acccept or reject salvation through Jesus. 

185. Thank God! They are yet prisoners of hope But you my dear 
reader in a christian land can have no hope in the future if you now 
neglect this great salvation by which ycu would receive the gilt of 
eternal life be brought into direct communion with Gcd and into fel- 
lowship with saints and angels, thereby receiving strength to over_ 
come the animal propensities and passions, making your animal and 
intellectual persons, ministers of love, joy and peace to your spirit as- 
you pressed on to glory and to God. 

186. If you spurn the offers of mercy and eternal life they will never 
be pressed on you again. This life can afford you no true happiness, 
and after death to the end of time your poor soul will suffer untold 
misery from a sense of guilt, remorse and terror of the second death,, 
the infliction of which justice may demaiul. 

187. God is love and will not give eternal life to any that will not be 
saved by his grace. Read the soul stirriug appeals and pleadings of 
God that sinners would turn from their evil ways and live and that 
God so loves erring man that he gave his beloved Son to suffer and die 
to ransom them from death, and that the soul that sinneth shall die- 
And the catalogue of crime for which the obdurate sinners are ta 
suffer the second death. And blessed are they who have part in the- 
first resurection for on them the second death hath no powei. 

188. And where can you find any proof for the horrible doctrine that 
God will or has made souls to sufler excruciating torments in a flaming 
hell through all eternity. 

189. The forever found tin the scriptures means no more than thO' 
forever found in a conveyance^of an estate to you and your heirs for- 
ever, and you do not believe that it includes eternity. 

190. Temporal or first death ends the sensibility of the body to pain 
and suflering. Eternal or second death will end the sensibility and 
existence of the soul. 

191. Hell is the prison of the unredeemed where they are confined ta 
the day of judgment. God save my readers from that prision and the- 
remorse and terror of the second death. 

192. A rational and unstrained interpretation of many texts of scripture 
will convince you that the burning lake will be found in the conflagra- 
tion of this planet when the elements shall melt with fervent 



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heat and in that lake death and hell will end and the unsaved will 
be utterly destroyed by the second death from which there will be 
no resurection. 

193. Of the intellectual person of man I have said but little, though 
no doubt it exerts a mighty influence for weel or woe for time and for 
eternity, but whether it dies with the body or lives On with the spirit 
is a mystery I shall not at present attempt to solve. 

194. But have often observed the disparity between the animal and 
intellectual persons in the same individual, some with well developed 
and strong bodies have a deformed and feeble intellect, and history 
gives us many proofs that with many dwarfed, weakly and deformed 
bodies have been united powerful and brilliant intellects. In the very 
aged we seldom find the intellect strong and active, and if not totally 
dead it seldom remains active till the death of the body. 

195. So little is said in the bible of man's intellect that I am of the 
opinion that man's intellect does not amount to any more in the sight 
of God than man's body does. 

196. And as the redeemed will be resurected with spiritual and glori- 
fied bodies, may they not have spiritualized and glorified intellects 
and in heaven the simple believer and the little child be as brilliant 

in intellect as, the most renowned philosophers. 

197. The diversity of opinions by diflerent individuals, on the same 
subject, each having exactly the same statement, or source of informa- 
tion, is nowhere more apparent, than in the conflicting doctrines, and 
dogmas of the diflerent churches. Therefore in things pertaining to 
salvation do not place implicit confidence in either the church or your 
unguided reason. The holy spirit is the only intallable guide to guide 
you into all truth, and God, has promised His holy spirit to as many 
as ask Him. 

199. Do not jeopardize your soul by relying on the so called rational or 
reli^non of reason, it is the vapor of theories that have no foundation 
in facts, there is no God in it. no guidance of the holy spirit, no advo- 
cate to plead for you, no atonement for sin, it cannot confer eternal life 
on any soul of man, and cannot save you from the horrors of the second 
death. 

200. The disasterous results in France should dr»ter us. 
From ever accepting a creed without God. 

She gathered the vintage in anguish and terror. 
And fled from her idols, through torrents of blood. 



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201. She banished religion and defied reason, 
Infidelity held her dread carnival, 

The priests and the nobles were ruthlessly murdered 
And Paris was changed to a wild raging hell 

202. O ! God save this nation from infidel free thought 
From Godless blaspheming philosojDhy save 

O ! may we be wise and in this life prepare for 

A home with the blest beyond death and the grave. 

203. Believe in the Prophets in Christ and the Bible 
Some strive to refute them bat prove them all true, 
For they all foretold in this age of the world 

^Exactly what these windy boasters would do. 

204 They make lies their re!uge neglect their salvation 

And barter their souls for a short lived renown 

They wield all the powers with which God endowed them 

To prove His word false and have lost a bright crown. 

205. As well might a sheep try to swallow the ocean. 
Or goat toss the Andeas and Alps in the sea. 

As science attempt to refute revelation 

T'will still be unshaken when mountains shall flee. 

206. The scriptures are true and they cannot be broken 
By all the vile efforts of Devils and men. 

Past present and future all cluster around them 
And prove God directed the inspired pen. 

207. Great Babylon, Nineveh, Tyre and Sidon 
€ry out out from their ruins to every age. 

The long buried past yea; the wnole ancient world 
Attest to the truth of the sacred page 

208. The spirits like frogs are abroad in the land 
With doctrines of devils exciting to strife 

Vast navies are fitting vast armies equiping 
And demons are urging war! war! to the knife. 

209. The nations are acting the terrible drama 
Foretold by the prophets long ages ago, 
They will rush madly on to their tragical end 
And sink in an ocean of bloodshed and woe. 

210. There is not a sentence a threat or a promise 
Contained in the bible that will not prove true 
To prevent the fulfillment of all there foreteld 
Is more than the whole combined world can do. 



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211. Christian statasmeu well Iviiow tliat tlie time is at hand 
Foretold by the prophets of war in the east 
This terrible contiict they cannot avert God 
Has promised the vultures and ravens this feast. 

312. All the armies on earth will rush to the contiict 
No nation at peace be allowed to remain 

For demons will force them all into the contiict 
And millions by millions of men will be slain. 

313. It will sweep like a tempest all over the earth 
In torrents the blood of her children will flow 

It seems as if God had forsaken mankind 
The earth like a drunkard will reel to and fro 

214. The signs of the times indicate an uprising 
Of the Godless and vile in every land 

To break from restraint, set all laws at defiance 
And sweep to distruction the noble and grand 

215. They are organized now under intidel leaders 
The theorists have told them that men has no soul 
And hence to indulge all the animal passions 

Is the acme of life and man's final goal. 

216. The churches no longer have power to restrain them 
They scoff at religion and laugh at the priest 

No power on earth from destruction can save them 
The ravens and dogs on their bodies will feast. 

217. They are led by fierce ruffins, who live on their toil 
United the^' will not much longer remain 

The children of God will be saved from their vengeance 
And they by each other be miserably slain. 

218. The whole human race are in fearful commotion 
At home or abroad no prospect of peace 

Each class 'gainst all others are madly contending 

And every hour their wild passions increase 

"219. When nations in war are destroying each other 

Their armies contending with powerful foes 

Those fierce factions will rise and slaughter each other 

Their death will insure to this earth sweet repose. 

220. They long persecuted and slandered God's people 

Professing religion they murder the saints 

They will reap what they sowed in anguish and terror 

The Lord is at hand to avenge our complaints. 



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221 The formal professor and obdurate sinner 
Will bitterly mourn their terrible fate 
They trifled too long with God's love and His mercy 
And would not repent till alas 'twas too late. 

222. When Russia has formed a compact alliance 
With all of the nations that lie round about 

They will conquer the Turks with terrible slaughter 
And from Egypt attempt to drive Brittons out 

223. Then swiftly will come the conflict of nations 
The Hebrews, the allies of Britton will be 

For the terrible day of the Lord is at hand 

And swift ships will bear them across the wide sea 

224. Fear not, God hath sworn that Russia shall never 
Possess the dear land where Messiah once trod 

He is coming again in power and glory 
To conquer and reign, an invincable God. 

225. Shout! shout!! ye seed of Israel's race. 
Rejoice and be exceeding glnd 

For your salvation draweth nigh 
Let none of Abram's sons be sad. 

226. Come O ! ye weary wanderers come 
In foreign lands no longer roam 

Give up your stubborn unbelief 
And God will call His outcasts home. 

227. Home! to Jerusalem to worship there your God 
Home! to the sacred land where ancient prophets trod 
Home ! where your enemies no more can vex your soul 
Home! to your father land where Jordan's waters roll. 

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Mnsings on tiie Banks of tlie Mississippi. 

1. On Mississippi's banks I stand 
The air is clear the view is grand 
Not on the Danube or the Nile. 

Do brighther skies or sunshine smile. 

2. But they are rich in ancient story 
And remnants of departed glory 
That in their ruins yet display 

A grandure greater than our day 



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•3. With all our boasted art and skill 
They are the masterpiece still 
Arena of the human race 
What struggles on thy soil took place. 

4. What valient armies were arrayed 
What heticombs of heroes made 
What mighty nations rose and fell 
Would take too long for me to tell. 

5. But 3^et a moment we delay 
A word of ancient Rome to say 
She was the home of liberty 
The first great nation of the free. 

6. Her staesman sought the public good. 
And for a time done all they could 

A great republic she became 
Her senators were men of fame. 

7. Not men of wealth but statesmen true 
Who had the will to dare and do 

She rose resplendant for a time 
Great conqueror in every clime 

8. Her power and greatness was complete 
The world lay trembling at her feet 

But as she grew in pomp and pride 
The democratic spirit died. 

9. Czar after Czar rose to her throne 
And made her conquered millions groan 
Her sons of wealth were all her care 
There were no rights for others there. 

10. Justice in courts w-as bought and sold 
She knew no other God but gold 

This nation if she copies Rome 
Had better take the lesson home. 

11. And turn before it is too late 
Por us to shun her wretched fate 
All hail the Saxons Goths and Huns 
We glory that we are their sons 

12. That by their hands proud Rome was fired 
And tyranny in flames expired 

The mighty mistress of the world 
By them to utter ruin hurld. 



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13. Her literature^ her works of art 
All ! all ! in lurid flames depart 
The wealth of centuries in a day 
In fire and smoke have past away. 

14. But little of the written page 
Have been transmitted to our age 
Her gems of art we moarn in vain 
But some grand ruins yet remain. 

15. The wealth she forced from other lands ^ 
Was snatched from out her feeble hands 

Not half her works are known by name 
For nearly all past off in flame. 

16. But then the world could breath more free 
It was the torch of liberty. 

For bondage is a dreaded vice 
That freedom's cheap at any price. 

17. It is a treasure all should prize 
Man's greatest, boon beneath the skies 
But if we do so quietly 

Let politicians have their way. 

18. A few years more you may depend 
Justice and liberty will end 
Protective tariff is the way 

Our rights and liberties to slay. 

19. To turn God's blessings to a curse 
And ever rob the poor man's purse 
And let rich corporations take 

All that the struggling millions make. 

20. But when the nation was in need 
And money must be had with speed, 
'Twas right to raise from importation 
Enough to save a bankrupt nation. 

21. Now that the treasuries flowing o'er 
Just make them stop and take no more, 
Ko longer for a party vote 

Or trust the politicians bloat. 

22. To many now in power and place 
Are to this nation a disgrace. 
Political designing knaves 
Elected by vile abject slaves. 



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23. Who sell their suffrage for a price 
To men who scruple at no vice 
They in the house and senate too 

A vulger venial wealthy crew. 

24. To statesmanship they can't aspire 
Amassing wealth is their desire, 
The corporations have their care 
Who will with them the plunder share. 

25. 'Tis time 'gainst such the peoi)le rose 
This state of things for to oppose, 

Arise at (mce expel those knaves 
And be no longer dupes and slaves. 

26. There's statesman plenty good and true 
And noble patriots not a few, 

If called by you to power and place 
Would be an honor to our race, 

27. But I have drifted quite away, from what at first I thought to say 
On this beautiful bluff" of the great Mississippi, 

Where fancy might weave some strange fiction you know ^^^ ^ ^_^ 
While the soft winds are rippling the face of the waters ' ..It^^^^J 
As on to the far distant ocean they flow. 

28. But where are the great tribes that once dwelt by this river 
As sullen and dark as the waters below, 

They are passing away like the mist of the morning 
To vile for our pity to weak for our foe. 

29. There's a history here if the hills could but tell it 
A mystery we earnestly strive to unfold. 

To the dim distant past they leave nothing to guide us 
No old crumbling runins the story has told. 

30. They have lived, they have died, and what have they accomplished 
They leave not a vestage to prove they have been 

Throughout this vast region not one temple or tower 
Or trace of a once mighty people is seen. 

31. During'all the commotions that rent the old world 
The throws and convulsions to set themselves free 
From the thraldom of priests and the grasp of the tyrant 
Was it all a dead calm this side of the sea. 

32. Only hunting and fishing on this side the ocean 
Or out on the bright lakes so sparkling and blue. 
Dancing over the waves with their fond dark eyed maidens 
In loves happy dream in a birchbark canoe. 



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33. With no civilization no tyrant or taxes 
No king ancl no subjects no master or slave, 

They were free as the winds that blow over the mountians 
To» do as they pleased from their birth to their grave. 

34. Some romancers and poets have got the idea 
A people so free had a heavenly time, 

That exempt from the vices of civilization 
Communing with nature their thoughts w^ere sublime. 

35. So those scribblers report the bombast of the savage 
As glowing with beauty in every line. 

Grand poetic figures and flowers of rhetoric, 
So sparkling and blooming in eloquence fine. 

36. But those scribblers and poets know nothing about them. 
Their stories but prove the old adage is true. 

They would flee in disgust from the tents of the savage, 
B.ut distance, dim distance enchanted their view. 

37. Now dear reader don't fancy that I am romancing, 
Or telling a story that I have been told. 

You will find very few that know more of the Redmen 
Having been much with them since a boy ten years old. 

38. Are they noble and brave ? Neither one or the other. 
Are they faithful and true ? I would like to know when. 
That they see God in clouds is a poetic fancy, 

So far from the truth that it suits not my pen. 

39. They are poor. Godforsaken and demon cursed wretches. 
Malignant and vile as the spirits they woo. 

They have murdered each other without love or mercy, 
And tortured their victims most devilish to. 

40. If we try te discover from what land they first came. 
Their habits and customs may guide us the best. 

They are not aborigines here I am certain. 
Their traditions all say they came from the west. 

41. That their forefathers found when they reached this new wortd, 
In beautiful cities a numerous race. 

Who were living in peace and knew nothing of w^arfare. 
That they slaughtered them ofi" and soon took their place. 

42. The old ruins now found on our southern borders, 
And millstones and crockery found in the west. 

Were the works of the people found here by the Eedmen. 
And do to the truth of tradition attest. 



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43. I think no bible scholar with Indians acquainted 
Can fail to discover how close they agree 

In their language and acts, superstition and customs, 
With tribes once in Canaan and near the Red Sea. 

44. If their forefathers fled as the children of Israel 
Were led by the pillar and cloud to their land, 
They well knew the invincible foe then approaching 
Were led by a power they could not withstand. 

45. They had finished the work God had gave them to do in, 
Preparing a home for a more favored race, 

To this then unknown land they were sent to make ready, 
A home for the christians, a safe dwelling place. 

46. The poor Indians have now about finished their mission, 
And got little credit for what they have done. 

They are passing away like the mist of the morning, 
In a few fleeting years their race will be run. 



Macliine Poetry Recited at the Agricul- 
tural Fair, Albert Lea, Sept, 1871. 



Brother farmers we joyfully greet you today, 

With your wives and your daughters so lovely and gay 

But we cannot do justice in stanzas so few, 

To one half the subjects that we should review. 

The world does move at a glorious pace. 

And the march of invention is blessing our race. 

The sickle and flail and the scythe hoe and spade, 

Were mean slavish tools not for poetry made. 

They are passing away and in fact we are glad, 

We can bid them adieu and not feel a bit sad.. 

For men who toiled hard with such sticks and such metal, 

Too often were talked of as country cattle. 

Now the Poets are reaping and Painters make hay. 

And the Doctors and Lawyers are farming to-day, 

Throw away the old scythe unused let them rust, 

They have served out their day let them moulder to dust. 

Jump on the new mower McCormick's advance, 



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With good lively horses uefore it to prance, 

Then drive round your meadows and sure you will say, 

You have music and poetry making your hay. 

The day has arrived when the farmers no more, 

Is toiling and sweating to gather his store. 

The reaping and threshing is done with a whirr, 

That makes on the farm a glorious stir. 

The shuttle and plow are now running by steam, 

No poet of old ever found such a theme. 

The day has arrived when machinery sings, 

O'er the land and the sea its melody rings. 

The rail cars are rushing o'er mountain and plain, 

And take to the ocean your millions of grain. 

Great steam ships then take it across the wide sea, 

The nations clap hands in the height of their glee, 

The telegraph chatters o'er mountain and vale, 

In an instant it tells us some wonderful tale, 

Out stripping the swift winged moments of time, 

In the speed it brings tidings from every clime. 

The waves of the deep cannot keep us apart, . 

We talk through the ocean and heart answers heart, 

Not Milton or Byron in their grandest dreams. 

Were ever inspired by nobler themes 

Machine Poetry, Who invented the word?* 

I thought it an insult my anger was stirred. 

Did he mean to offend the Bard of the day. 

Who spun off his rhymes for love, mischief or play, 

I thought of the present the future and past. 

And this inspiration rame o'er me at last, 

Machine Poetry, it will yet be sublime. 

And peel its glad anthems to all comiog time, 

It will redeem man from the curse of his race, 

Make no drops of sweat or a care worn face. 

Give man time to prepare for a Heaven above. 

And transform this Earth to an Eden of love. 

*A premium of $5.00 was offered for the best piece of machine 
poetry to be read at the fair. The prize was awarded to the above, 
and with the money the author bought a shawl for his wife. 



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To My Wife, November 24th, 1872. 

Dear Ann: 

The bowers we loved are leafless now, 
The singing birds have fled, 
The flowers that bloomed along our path, 
Are numbered with the dead. 
A vague uncertain some brings. 
Such sadness to my heart 
When sitting in this leafless grove, 
Tears will unbidden start. 
Oh! would my loved one I could bless 
You with eternal bloom, 
And shield you from the cruel storms. 
That drive us to the tomb. 
But lilie the flowers we too must fade, 
Our friends and joys may fly. 
But let us cherish while we live, 
That love that cannot die. 
• The vine is clinging to the oak 
Though storms around it roar; 
It holds it with the fond embrace 
It did in days of yore. 
Cling to me as the withered vine 
Clings to the leafless bough. 
Though storms may come our hearts may twine 
Through life as fond as now. 
I know love is a deathless flower. 
That bloomed before man's fall, 
A precious plant from paradise. 
Our joy, our heaven, our alJ. 
Then while we live let love be ours 
To bless, till life be o'er 
And dying, take the precious gem 
Back to its native shore. 



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The Last Adieu, after a Short Visit to the 
Home of My Boyhood, 



Oh! Sing not those songs. They recall to this room 

The loved ones we laid in the cold, silent tomb. 

To stay my emotions, I struggle in vain, 

The living and dead stand before me again. 

Their voices together in harmony roll, 

The past rushes back like a wave o'er my soul, 

Their dearly loved voices I n'er can forget, 

Now dearer than ever, they come to me yet ; 

I see them, I hear them, so dear to my heart. 

Thy image fond Mother, can never depart. 

If 'twas not a fancy, wild work of the brain, 

How glad I would fly to thy bosom again. 

Again you would comfort your poor little Fred, 

And lay your kind hand on my sorrowing head. 

The grave where you sleep was my altar of prayer 

The moon and the stars oft' looked down on me there. 

I love it! I love it! ! In boyhood's sad years 

I watered that dear hallowed spot with m.y tears. 

'TAvas Bethel, my Pisga, for heaven the goal. 

Where Jesus spoke peace to my poor troubled soul. 

I wandered afar, but wherever I be 

Each setting sun marks one day nearer to thee. 

The friends of my youth are fast passing away 

How few of them living, I number to day 

One after another we hasten along, 

Times' swift flowing river unceasing and strong, 

Is bearing us on to eternities shore, 

The haven of rest w^here no wild billows roar. 

God grant wx all meet in the home of the blest, 

Where grief cannot come, and the weary find rest. 

From nieces and nephews it greives me to part, 

So fondly I treasure you each in my heart, 

My prayer to the father of mercy will be, 

From griefs I have felt, may you ever be free, 

My heart throbs with pain as I step from the shore. 

So sacred to me I may n'er visit more 

The dear hallow^ed spot where in youth I have strayed^ 

In joy and in sorrow in sunshine and shade, 

Dear Brothers and Sisters I bid you farewell. 

And long may you live and in harmony dwell, 

In sadness I leave you forewarned I know, 

I clasp one dear hand for the last time below, 

With joy may we meet on eternity's shore. 

Where brothers and sisters are parted no more. 



